Well, this is interesting. The New York Times caught wind of a special and secret meeting between Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer and Adobe's frontman Shantanu Narayen. They claim the entire talk was dedicated to the fight against Apple, and one of the options discussed was... Microsoft acquiring Adobe.

I'm wondering if all he read was the headline, and misunderstood it as *Apple* and Microsoft merging. Not that Apple are the second-largest software company either, but it makes more sense than Adobe...

That's how I originally read it. I was confused at first. Didn't even catch Adobe in there.